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Old 02-08-2016, 12:53 AM   #14
Blue Ghost
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Spinward Marches
Default Re: Traveller Classic: where is the setting?

What Mike said. Traveller initially started as a "GURPS Like" sci-fi RPG where you created the setting, though there were allusions to a loosely defined one in the basic books.

Currently, if you look at the GURPS or T5 CD/hardbound book, you'll note a very developed setting and background that's been evolving over 30+ years.

But it's important to note that even though the Imperium and all its neighbors and their collective histories are a solid B.G. for your game, you don't really have to use them, but it's there as a default if you need some kind of backdrop to serve the players in the adventure.

Traveller really is fun game. DND in space is what one game vendor at the Stanford University Shopping Center called it, only instead of griffins and dragons (which you can create with the animal encounter chart) you encounter exotic alien critters and bad guys who may be human or some other race.

Have fun >:)
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